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Maternal Placenta Ingestion Tied to GBS Infection in Infant. A case report in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report described a healthy breast-fed newborn who twice developed late-onset group B Streptococcus infections, which were linked to placenta capsules ingested by the mother beginning three days after childbirth.